The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

I want the words to be read in conjunction with the music.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.